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Time is almost out for Senior Gift donations, and while participation has been high, not everyone’s cheery. The Senior Gift, taking cues from big league fund raising ventures, acknowledges hefty student donations with “century” and “associate” gift level tags for $100 and $250 contributions, respectively, kind of like donations to a municipal symphony. The practice isn’t new, but it’s drawn ire from those who say it makes class divisions a part of the feel-good fund. Supporters tend to cite...
...Martin creates a childhood and past trauma as motivations for building his psychologically convincing characters.“He finds characters that are less likeable and less charismatic and less easy to deal with [than himself],” says Spillane-Hinks. “His gift is that he was never complacent but always working.”“He worked as hard on the thesis, or harder, than he did on this play. If that says anything about the quality of the thesis, the thesis must be extraordinary,” says Spillane-Hinks.Martin...
...Playboy” hasn’t yet incited Harvard students to a mass uprising, but it does put on a great show. This Loeb Mainstage play tells the story of Christy Mahon (W. “Hugh” Malone ’08), a traveler with a gift for blarney who arrives in a small town in Ireland’s County Mayo claiming to have killed his father. Christy wins the praise of the town and the love of Pegeen Mike (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08), a feisty townswoman, for the bravery he affects...
...into empathy for the families of fallen soldiers (Families), optimism about the future (Looking for a Leader) and exuberance; Let's Impeach the President opens with a jazzed-up sample of Taps before turning into an all-out party anthem. Minds are unlikely to be changed, but Young's gift for creative indignation is good for the ears...
...Snow will be an irreverent presence in a West Wing so formal that button-downs are considered declasse. When he was speechwriting director, Snow once was seen wearing overalls in the complex. (A gag gift someone gave his team, he says.) On the website for his radio show ("The Power of FOX. The Connections of Snow"), the "By Popular Demand" section has a link labeled "Tony Sings! Listen to Tony's, um, unique rendition of the Spongebob Squarepants theme song...